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Gunfire Like Rain

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[The Marines] have orders to shoot any male of military age on the streets after dark, armed or not … Sometimes the gunfire was so long and steady it sounded like rain … Brent Bourgeois, a 20-year-old lance corporal from Kenner, La., said he had seen an American helicopter fire a missile at a man with a slingshot … “It’s the fight that never came last year,” Major Petrucci said. “I guess these guys didn’t really want to die for Saddam. But all this anti-American feeling is now uniting them.”

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